Spell check does not detect absence of space after a period.

John Doue · External Since: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 38

I just realized that Word 03 does not detect the lack of space in the
following case:

"the boy has $21.He forgot his purse."

this even if checking space after end of sentence is checked in settings.

Is there anyway around this?

Thanks
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John Doue

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] · External Since: Jul 09, 2005 Posts: 410

Did you check all of your settings?

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"John Doue" <notwobe.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I just realized that Word 03 does not detect the lack of space in the
>following case:
>
> "the boy has $21.He forgot his purse."
>
> this even if checking space after end of sentence is checked in settings.
>
> Is there anyway around this?
>
> Thanks
> --
> John Doue

John Doue · External Since: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 38

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote:
> Did you check all of your settings?
>
I did, to the best of my ability. Unchecking the setting "Ignore words
with numbers" (if this is the one you had in mind) does change the
Speller's behavior in this regard but it still does not suggest to
insert a space. What exactly does this setting accomplish since "words
with numbers" is not crystal clear to me. And how do I get
Word to suggest a space in this kind of situation, which is what it
should do IMHO. Or are there case where having numbers,a period and a
letter without spaces make any sense? I must be missing something.
Thanks for enlighting me.

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John Doue · External Since: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 38

JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote:

> Did you check all of your settings?
>
One more piece of information about this problem: in an English
sentence, with "Check words with numbers" unchecked, the speller stops
in the following sentence "I have $23.00.And you?" over "23.00.And"
without suggesting anything or indicating a space is missing. But in the
following French sentence "J'ai $23.00.Et toi ?" the speller does not
flag anything.

If the Speller's behavior in English can be considered adequate if not
satisfactory, the problem remains in French. Any further suggestion?

Thierry Fontenelle, what do you think?

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John Doue

Doug Potter [MSFT] · External Since: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 13

You're not seeing the suggestion you want because the part of the expression
to the left of the period is not in the dictionary.

We can suggest inserting a space in the case of an expression such as
"is.and" - but it is difficult to suggest inserting two spaces in any
expression (such as in "or.is.and") - and I explicitly decided to never do
this - because it causes too many strange suggestions.

It's easy to find cases where one won't get the suggestion one would like to
see. In general, we try to make sure suggestions are useful in cases where
they aren't obvious. I point out that in the case you mention here, the
"right" expression is fairly obvious.

I don't know why the French speller doesn't flag your expression. It's also
easy to find case where we don't mark all the things you think we should
mark. We can mark this as a test case for future versions.

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"John Doue" <notwobe DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP] wrote:
>
>> Did you check all of your settings?
>>
> One more piece of information about this problem: in an English sentence,
> with "Check words with numbers" unchecked, the speller stops in the
> following sentence "I have $23.00.And you?" over "23.00.And" without
> suggesting anything or indicating a space is missing. But in the following
> French sentence "J'ai $23.00.Et toi ?" the speller does not flag anything.
>
> If the Speller's behavior in English can be considered adequate if not
> satisfactory, the problem remains in French. Any further suggestion?
>
> Thierry Fontenelle, what do you think?
>
> --
> John Doue

John Doue · External Since: Dec 20, 2004 Posts: 38

Doug Potter [MSFT] wrote:

> You're not seeing the suggestion you want because the part of the expression
> to the left of the period is not in the dictionary.
>
> We can suggest inserting a space in the case of an expression such as
> "is.and" - but it is difficult to suggest inserting two spaces in any
> expression (such as in "or.is.and") - and I explicitly decided to never do
> this - because it causes too many strange suggestions.
>
> It's easy to find cases where one won't get the suggestion one would like to
> see. In general, we try to make sure suggestions are useful in cases where
> they aren't obvious. I point out that in the case you mention here, the
> "right" expression is fairly obvious.
>
> I don't know why the French speller doesn't flag your expression. It's also
> easy to find case where we don't mark all the things you think we should
> mark. We can mark this as a test case for future versions.
>
Doug,

Thanks for your reply. I of course never expect perfection but as you
can guess, members of this list are closer to being perfectionist than
average users ... I like to think there is a solution to a problem but I
must acknowledge as you wisely infer, that in some cases, solutions
would create more problems than they solve ...

The behavior of the French speller might have something to do with the
fact that it probably (wrongly, in my case), assumes that the Regional
settings are set to France (or another country where comma is used to
mark decimals). I will check this someday. I know this settings has
caused me lots of headaches before I realized that, as opposed to the
older Dos WordPerfect versions I used to use, Word does not have a
setting for numbers (which I deeply regret since for users like me
alternating constantly between French and English documents, numbers
alignment is a nightmare). An item for a wish list ...

Best regards
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John Doue